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ageektrappedon Is Apple's developer support a joke?

My iOS developer account activation took quite a while due to company permissions and stuff. I was hating on Apple too, just waiting for them. Finally, I picked up the phone and called them.

And it was a great experience. Talking to them solved the problem in minutes.

AND I had to break out the phonetic alphabet (the connection was bad, I was on an iPhone :)), and the support person knew it. Impressive.

ageektrappedon Your Commute Is Killing You

My last job had a commute of one hour each way on public transit (bus). I didn't notice the commute until we had lay offs. I wasn't laid off, but left within 8 months.

Now I'm a 20 minute walk to work and 2 minutes from the gym. That might be the best part of the job, even in cold Canadian winters.

ageektrappedon “Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It

Wait what? There's a free Startup Edition?!? I've been looking all over for free issue management software that doesn't suck and here Fogbugz and Kiln are free for little 1-man software shops.

What great news! I've been using the EpicWin iPhone app for issue management and DropBox for source control up to now. Every time I thought about it for any length of time, I'd get really nervous. :)

Signing up right now.

Edit: Also, this made me so happy, I signed up for HN, after lurking for over a year, just so I could say so. Now that's great marketing.